Edward D.C. Fowler

Ed is a managing director in the firm’s Asset Management Practice. He primarily recruits chief investment officers, portfolio managers, and investment analysts, as well as institutional sales and marketing professionals. He has also completed a number of general counsel and operations searches for a variety of asset management organizations.

For the past nine years, he served as a partner at Higdon Partners, having rejoined the firm in 2007. He started his recruiting career with the firm over 20 years ago. He has conducted senior-level searches throughout the investment management industry and has worked closely with the endowment and foundation community for most of that time. In addition to his recruiting experience, Ed co-founded and managed Referral Networks, a successful recruiting-related software start-up. He also spent three years at Wachtell Lipton, a leading New York law firm. Prior to rejoining Higdon Partners, he spent four years running his own search firm, which also focused exclusively on asset management.